HS IRBs News February 2020

Important ARROW Improvement: Self-Service Personnel Update

On February 29th, ARROW will be updated to replace the current personnel change process with a self-service personnel update function. This will provide study teams will more flexibility when updating personnel and allow for these updates to be made more quickly. Highlights of the new self-service activity include:

Personnel updates will now work the same across all application and project types (e.g., exemptions, ceded, regular, etc.)

Study teams will receive an approval notification with each personnel update

Remove personnel and granting edit access will also now be available as part of the personnel update

For more information about this new functionality, please see the following help document:

Revised Guidance on Editorial Changes to Subject-Facing Materials

We have guidance on when editorial changes to existing study materials would not require a change of protocol. We recently expanding this guidance to include some additional subject-facing materials like surveys in addition to recruitment materials.

Next IRB Workshop

The next session of the “Common Rule and IRB Submission Overview” workshop is now open for registration: